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delrem

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5. Two things about math that I've never reconciled.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2015, 02:01 AM

Jun 2015

One is that math is mechanical, you learn the mechanics from methods of construction plus axioms 1,2,3,.. to theorems 1,2,3,..., and you combine one totally mechanical system with others to get more complex 100% mechanical, in fact mindless systems that robots can follow. So we've got our computers.
The other is that things like numbers like Pi, facts like the incommensurability of diagonals, and math associated with geometry (and physics) in general seem to be hardcoded into the universe.

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